Mis-fire

Rating: 5/10 (5 January 2006)

It's the year 2019 and the age of cloning humans is reality. A colony of clones paid for by rich sponsors are living in an underground community completely oblivious to the outside world. The community is run by an evil conglomerate named Merrick and he uses the clones as holders for organs until the sponsors need them. The clones are unaware of this and believe they are only living in this community until it's their time to go to the island which is an exotic living space surrounded by ocean and paradise. When it's the clone's turn to go the "island", they are in fact killed off and their organs are kept. Two of the clones (Ewan McGregor, Scarlet Johansen) discover the secret and ultimately escape and are now on the run.
"The Island" starts off as an interesting premise, but later becomes a typical chase film. Michael Bay, who likes his films loud and full of falling buildings, blows up lots of stuff and makes lots of noise. The action sequences are well done and you certainly won't lose interest, but the storyline gets away from the original premise and gets very routine. The acting isn't very good either as this is Scarlet Johansen's worst performance that I can remember. She's probably a lot better in "Match Point".
This movie isn't awful. There is much worse than this. I just wish the director and writers would've stayed on track a bit more with their story because it started out pretty interesting. (**)